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" Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. "

Helen Keller

Character

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" Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience. "

" Today's man of the world proclaims that sin, and his enterprising in sin, are a part of modern living, but it is not modern. It goes back to Adam and Eve - to desire and the temptation to know - to experience evil. "

" My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair. "

" In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income. "

" Japan, not only a mega-busy city that thrives on electronics and efficiency, actually has an almost sacred appreciation of nature. One must travel outside of Tokyo to truly experience the 'old Japan' and more importantly feel these aspects of Japanese culture. "

" Progressive changed the industry when we introduced our Comparison Rater Experience and showed you auto rates of other companies next to our own - even if our rates weren't the lowest. That level of transparency was unprecedented. "

Tricia Griffith

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" The city - as the theater of experience, the refuge, the hiding place - has, in turn, been replaced by an abstraction, the fast lane. In the fast lane, the passive observer reduces everything - streets, people, rock lyrics, headlines - to landscape. Every night holds magical promises of renewal. But burnout is inevitable, like some law of physics. "

" Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it. "

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Dim

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" Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. "

Helen Keller

Friends

I Am

" History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion. "

" I remembered the times I'd second-guessed myself or questioned my own ability. The times when a little voice in my head worried that I didn't have the know-how or the experience to reach for an exciting opportunity. "

" The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice. "

" Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain. "

" There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. "

" All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. "

" Being in love is the only transcendent experience. "

" I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience. That's why I also believe in reincarnation, that we were put here with ideas to pass around. "

" Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought! "

" There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety. "

" As I got older, I had more experience with borders. Some literal - living in the dramatically blue misty mountains on the line between North Carolina and Tennessee, and living in California - home to expats, transplants, and refugees from both sides of innumerable borders. "

" I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life. "

Julia Stiles

College

People

" Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. "

" Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience. "

" Rejection is the one constant of human experience. "

" 'Spring Day' - I wrote main lyrics based on my personal experience with old friends. It is about my sad memories with him, and it makes me sentimental whenever I listen to the song. "

" It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length. "

" Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. "

" It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves. "

" I think the more realistic you try to make the graphics and the experience, the more you limit yourself to a single vision. "

" For me, life is about experience and being a good person. "

Chris Hemsworth

Experience

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